Garden Sage

Description

Perennial shrub, to 80cm. Stems erect, much-branched, 4-angled, white-pubescent or -tomentose. Leaves to 55 x 15mm; petiolate, simple, oblong to elliptic, base obtuse or attenuate and occasionally lobulate, margin entire, rugose, white pubescent especially beneath; petioles to 2.5cm. Verticillasters 4-20 flowered, approximate, in more or less simple racemes; pedicels to 3mm; bracts ovate, apex narrowly acute, membranous; calyx to 14mm, bell shaped, glandular-punctate and pubescent, apex of teeth subulate to narrowly acute; corolla white or pink to violet or purple, tube to 15mm upper lip to 1cm. Fruit to 2 — 1mm, grey.